This story is for all the pessimists.
I am broker than broke and have a lot of money on FTP.
Yesterday I was so bored that I played a 1 FPP+rebuy satellite on PS.
300 players and the first 3 won 11 tournamentdollars.... and I ended up with the first 3.
I invested 2 FPP (worth 2 dollarcents) in that satellite and today I have 1400 dollar. So that is 70,000 times my investment.
So miracles do happen.

Congrats.... mabye you should go pro....

You can lead a donk to water, but you can't make them think.

Epic line.

Well, I know how to play cashgames. I have a big tiltproblem so that means that sometimes I am broke. But one thing I really suck at, and always have bad luck in, is tournaments. I NEVER win big tournaments. So last year I was playing a FTOP tournament and everything was going perfect, I thought "what is going on?". Made the final table, couldn't understand it, expected a powerfailure or internetproblems any moment, because I NEVER win tournaments. I ended up winning that tournament and still couldnt believe it. Off course a few weeks later Black Friday happened, couldnt cash out anymore. So I was like "yeah, that explains it, why I won that tournament".
Yesterday I won that satellite and later I ended up fourth in a tourney with 6600 players. So I feel my luck is changing. I feel like we gonna have some good news really soon.

i heard there's a chance we will hear something tomorrow, so good news

You don't have to hear that. There's a chance that something happens everyday. That's what's so ****ed about this ****.

Stop the presses

Your main problem as far as I can see it is that despite a dozen people telling you that China was completely fully of **** and had no credibility, you decided to believe him and put hope in him. Then when he was wrong, which was guaranteed to happen, you felt even that much more let down.

Hate to say I told you so, so I won't.

But sometimes even the village idiot tells the truth.

You know, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they say, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one......But stilllllllllll, they come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezCXUTdcT5s

A broken watch reflects the correct time for 1 out of every 43,200 seconds.

Yeah, that's often enough to put faith in that watch.

Not this time. Or the last time. Or the time before that....see where I'm going with this?

Yup, your luck changing is going to make this deal go through even faster and the poker world is going to hear that we are getting our money back.... just because of your "luck". Nice touches....

Congrats on your score, but hell, your story make me think i should cash out everything on PS. Catastrophic news must be waiting for us on the corner, how else could you finish fourth after winning the satellite.
Kidding, congrats.

Just give yourself a temp-ban of a week. Trust me, as soon as you do you will feel a strange sense of liberation. Once you're back on, it's much easier to pull yourself away for a few days if need be. You obviously aren't gaining anything by obsessively checking this thread (I would guess it's -LifeEV).

Yes, hm, have not looked at it that way.

In b4 someone quotes Dwan's tweets about his haircut and tries to tie that to some sort of inside info.

Hey, 99% of the time I feel pessimistic. Sometimes I wake up feeling neutral and then I read this blog and I feel pessimistic again, its contagious.
Today I chose to be optimistic. It's based on nothing, but almost everything I heard the past year was based on nothing. I hope it rubs off. Try it. Tomorrow I go back deciding whether to put my head in the oven or jump off the roof.

lol.

I never ONCE said I "believe" China. IIRC, I said, as much as I thought he was full of ****, I was hoping for his sake and mine that he would be right. So there won't be any need to tell me you told me so, because you didn't.

tom dwans tweets?????

If Howard Lederer shows up to play in the wsop, then I guess I will be spending the night in jail... which one of you is going to bail me out, i figure it should be durrrr since he guaranteed me my money, but I doubt that is gonna happen.

The site is down because obviously the guy from Pokerstars, who is now in Dublin, teaching all the FTP workers, had some issues with it and now they are working on the improvements. Soon to happen with fulltilt.net, ldo

Do you have any source on this?
This case why don't they just put a blank page with "maintenance" text on it?

TomDwan "@wiggdog: No WSOP this year? Are you playing in any events or just staying in Macau?" I'll be back in the next few days or weeks for #wsop

~5 min ago.

Do you have your questions ready, Joey?

Soooooooo. Another week and still the big wheels keep on spinning.

Anyone seen Howard? If you do tell him I have a steel toe boot waiting to heave him one, two or maybe even 3.